In character as “Pontius Pilate,” washing his hands of the fate of Jesus, Peter asked one of the kids a rhetorical question. When the kid responded with, “Duh!” my son quipped, “One does not say ‘duh’ to the prefect of Judea. I think we’re gonna need another cross here.” Similar:The geekling is 14 today.PersonalThe girl…
Similar:When it comes to the truth, point of view really does matter.You may have seen a version of this meme…DesignRay Harryhousen, visual effects pioneer, dies The Harryhausen family regret to…AestheticsAn overnight traffic spike on an older online handout prompted me to touch it up. #techwri… Those are the stats for my entir…AcademiaThat moment when you're…
Microsoft executive Steve Sinofsky jogs to the side of the stage to replace a frozen Surface tablet computer, during an otherwise slick product demo in Los Angeles. Video: Microsoft’s Surface tablet ‘fails’ during Los Angeles showcase – Telegraph. Similar:Down with Fake Politics! Down with Fake Government! Long Live the Free Press!You can’t get much more…
Have you hugged your college’s freshman writing course today? (Not the students, not the teachers—we don’t want disciplinary hearings. The course.) Like most who have worked in English departments, I was rarely excited to be assigned freshman rhetoric (as it was called where I started). The essay-grading was back-breaking and social-life-destroying, to say nothing of…
The Daly Dose I notice the photographer has filled his page with keywords designed to advance his commercial ventures, which is a little spammy, but they are still valuable photos. Similar:Headphones, Croutons and RhetoricME (with crouton tongs in one hand and s…Culture11 Sites and Apps Kids Are Heading to After FacebookRemember MySpace? Not so long…
While signing up for some online training for work, I found this screen, which seems to ask me to grant my consent to permit the service provider to use my private information in one of zero ways. Similar:Academics want to preserve video games. The game industry is fighting them in court.For decades, champions of the…
Apparently, her defense of the classics and German was among the reasons UVa recently ousted the presudent. As a grad student needing to beef up my foreign kanguage credentuals, I took the summer German course Herr McDonald comments on here. William C. McDonald, director of undergraduate studies in German at the university, stressing that he…
This summer, I’m a “CSC Insider” — meaning that I’m getting some VIP treatment, in return for blogging twice a month about the Carnegie Science Center. First off, I attended the opening night gala for Guitar: The Instrument That Rocked the World.
via Rainbow Hector Weblog Similar:Practicing with materials and geometry. The lamps and chair require hundreds of times as m… AestheticsA trend story about millennials, by The New York Times“When it comes down to it, life is reall…AmusingCarolyn is the Production Understudy for PPT’s Dial M for Murder in September A great professional experience for he…CultureFacebook…
The cast for “Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendeiner Hogan Bogan Logan Was Her Name” poses with Mr. McFeely (David Newell) at the Fayette County Fair, Jun 16. My daughter plays the young Catalina, who also narrates. In the photo, she’s the one holding the book (with some her lines taped inside. Shh, don’t tell!) Working…
On Monday Dragas, sensing that the university community might want some explanation for such a radical act, sent out a second message: “The Board believes this environment calls for a much faster pace of change in administrative structure, in governance, in financial resource development and in resource prioritization and allocation. We do not believe we…
Stop drinking from random bottles, child! Similar:Children of Eden (Stage Right, April 2014)My wife and I in Biblical costumes for C…CultureRecording Christmas Stories for WAOB Audio TheatreFor WAOB Audio Theater, my family spent …PersonalFDR in AnnieI’ve accepted the role of FDR in the upc…CultureChilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend.Chilling on Forbes Avenue with…
The council’s decision to impose the ban came after the Daily Record newspaper published a photograph of Martha alongside chef Nick Nairn under the headline “Time to fire the dinner ladies.” Speaking on BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland programme Mr Payne said his daughter was not happy about the council’s decision. He added: “I understand…
I find it really amazing that it has taken this long for Amazon to finally shrink that ridiculously huge margin, which persisted like fake stirrups on a horseless carriage. Similar:I MacGyvered myself a heat sinkI’m getting ready to record about 18hrs …DesignFacebook’s Censorship Problem Is What Happens When a Tech Company Controls the NewsFacebook makes…
This young blogger has learned a very important lesson about power and privilege. I’m sure the story does not end here. We anguish about getting kids to be enthusiastic about healthy, sustainable food — to not prefer the bad stuff, not waste the good stuff, and not be entitled little monsters who whine about when their next…
Takei’s post-Trek, post-coming-out reinvention of himself as an internet meme fusion reactor is a beautiful thing to watch. With this move, I think Takei may have officially out-nerded former TNG child actor Wil Wheaton — and I say that with total respect to Wheaton’s own post-Trek reinvention. Takei warned that a hot war between Star Trek…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BYkuRBVXN4 Similar:The difficulty is the point (teaching critical thinking skills differs from teaching facts…In the past few years I have seen more s…AcademiaJanuary 6th … the board game? About 20 of us are here in Brooklyn to …Art#PPTPlaytime adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.Top — nonverbal addition with Jessica an…DramaAddis, LA: Little Orphan Annie stopped…
I “liked” this when I first found it on Facebook, which means I helped spread it. So then, here’s to the editors of Tails, who found themselves unjustly ridiculed. So a few days ago a photoshopped cover of Tails magazine landed on Food Network Humor — a pretty funny comma failure — and our tipline lit up. We were skeptical,…
As a kid, I loved the feeling of confidence that came when my mom handed me a few bucks at the pool and told me I could get what I wanted from the concession stand. Since my main responsibility for the afternoon was to keep the kids occupied, and I was in no rush to…
I’ve been having some problems with the WordPress iOS app. Just testing. This should be a robot inspecting a donut. Similar:In October, 2002, I was blogging about stupid space explosions, the superiority complex, w…In October, 2002, I was blogging about …CyberculturePublic, Private, Political: Social Theories and Blogging PracticesPublic, Private, Political: Social Theor…Academia35% of my site…